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"`It's lucky for you two dunder-headed ignoramases! he went on to say in a nasty sneerin' way the baste had with him whin he was angry and was any way put out. `Preshous lucky for you, Misther Terence Mahony, an' you, too, Garry O'Neil, that I chanced to come afther you, thinkin' ye'd be up to some mischief, or else ye'd have put your foot in it with a vengeance an' murthered between you this poor, harmless ould woman lying here.
"Does Foker ever think?" drawled out Mr. Poyntz. "Foker, here is a considerable sum of money offered by a fair capitalist at this end of the table for the present emanations of your valuable and acute intellect, old boy!" "What the deuce is that Poyntz a talking about?" Mrs. Calverley asked of her neighbor. "I hate him. He's a drawlin', sneerin' beast."
The New York Central exhibit shows the old Mohawk and Hudson train, a model of the first locomotive sot a-goin' on the Hudson in 1807 with a boundin' heart and a tremblin' hand by Robert Fulton, and which wuz pushed off from the pier and propelled onwards by the sneerin', mockin', unbelievin' laughs of the spectators as much as from the breezes that swept up from the south.
I didn't take to him at all. "Would you be so kind enough as to tell me where my saddle an' bridle is?" sez I in my softest voice. "What the 'ell do I know about your saddle an' bridle?" sez he. "I left 'em here with Peabody," sez I. "How would I know it was yours?" sez he, sneerin'. "I'd recognize it," sez I. "It had H. H. burned into it." "What does H. H. stand for?" sez he.
The other feller hadn't said nothin' up to that time, an' he broke in now. 'I s'pose you'd take him fer a gift, wouldn't ye? he says, kind o' sneerin'. "'Wa'al, yes, I says, 'I dunno but I would if you'd throw in a pound of tea an' a halter.
"Very well," said my pa. "What else will happen to you if you don't tell the truth, Mitchell?" "I'll be punished in the hereafter." "Cross-examine," said my pa. Then Major Abbott began in kind of a sneerin' voice. "So you think you'll be punished in the hereafter?" "Yes, sir." "Why?" "Why wouldn't I be for swearin' a man's life away?"
'Tricks of the trade, says some other barrister's clerk, sneerin' because you wasn't 'is boss. An' then I'd punch 'is 'ead.... An' I don't reckon myself a soft-'earted feller as a rule.... Reklect that Shillito Case ?" "Don't, Bertie! Don't say such things in praise of me. I'm not worth such love.
"Lor'," he thought, "but how I pity them husbands of her'n. Bet their graves felt good when they got into 'em, the hull seven graves. What with sneerin' at medicines and things a person eats, it must have been awful, not to mention stealin' of keys and a-lockin' 'em in nights. S'pose the house had got afire, where'd I be now?"
And it's by that same token we call him Avenger, for no sneerin' stranger ever hunted with him that didn't get the divil's own peltin' with clods off his handy Irish heels.
It fairly maddens 'em to see us getting a bit of freedom makes 'em that wild they don't know how to be sneerin' an' nasty enough. Every one of us will just roll up an' use our power now we've got it, they've kep' our necks under their heel long enough." "I wasn't thinkin' of the vote at present," said Grandma Clay.
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